1884 



GLEAXIXGS IX BEE CI^LTTTRE. 



341 



SOMETHING MORE ABOUT GRANDPA 

 LANGSTROTH. 



MKS. HAKHISdN (ilVKI* I'S A PEN Pll'TrKK OF HIM 

 AND HIS HOME. 



fELL, chililifii, Daniel Webster uxfd his eyes 

 at the convention. Didn't heV T wanted to 

 have a ehauce to tall< more with grandpa 

 Langstroth, so I ottered to be his heau to go 

 to dinner. T don't see any reason why a wo- 

 man can't bean an old g-ontleman, do yon, provided 

 she is strong- enough, and has monej- enough to pay 

 lor the dinners':' So we started aci-oss the street to 

 the restaurant. Grandpa had his cane in one hand, 

 and I took hold of his othei- arm. When we got 

 there we sat down at one of the little tables, and 

 had to wait for it be cleared up; and while this was 

 being done we talked. He said he had two married 

 daughters, and one had seven children, and the oth- 

 er had none. Guess which one grandpa lives with. 



He said his grandchildren were a great comfort to 

 him, and he pared with knife, apples and other fruit, 

 and cut it up for them. His little grandson, three 

 years old, sleeps with him on the east side of the 

 house; and one morning he looked out of the win- 

 dow and saw the sun, round and red, and he said, 

 "Dranpa, tut up that l)id snn, and div me a piece of 

 it." 



I wanted, after dinner, to have grandpa go up in 

 the cars with me to Farwell Hall; but along comes 

 a bustling little man with short legs, and he holds 

 up his head so as to see through his gold spectacles, 

 and says, "Mrs. Harrison, you are not going to have 

 Mr. Langstroth go up town with you. " So Mr. New- 

 man took him to his' house for a rest and an aj), as he 

 had a cold. 



Are you not all sorry that grandi)ci has been sick 

 so long':" And won't you iirii>' (!()d to make him well 

 again':' Li < ixda HviimsoN. 



Peoria, ] 11. 



Thank you, Mrs. II. ll seems lo ine I 

 could see you iuid ouiohl iriend j^'oiii^ across 

 tlie street.' and sittiujjc down at youi' little 

 table, and 1 know exactly how he looked 

 when he told that little storv about one of 

 the grandchildren. I think I shall have to 

 tell here a little story he lold me in Toronto. 

 He was speakiiifj: about the signiticance of 

 that expression so often used in the Hil)Ie. 

 ••^lilk and honey,'" and he remarked that, 

 when any one is made sick l)y eating' new 

 honey, a good drink of milk will always cure 

 it. You know 1 always like a ititcher of 

 milk when 1 have breacl and butter and hon- 

 ey. Well, last spring when new honey Itegan 

 to come in at friend L.'s home, they all waid- 

 ed a taste of it ; and when some was i>ut cm 

 the table they ate (juite freely of it. especial- 

 ly the children. Before going to bed fiiend 

 L. said he felt some distress irom eating so 

 much honey, and so he took a drink of new 

 milk. On the way up stairs t(t his l)ed he 

 met one of the little ones. i)robably the same 

 (me whont he speaks of, who wanted to "tut 

 up that bhl sun. " The little fellow was in 

 his night dress, and was coming down stairs 

 with a doleful face, rubliing his little stom- 

 ach, and saying, — 



" O dranpa ! 1 dot tummy ache, I dot tum- 

 my ache." 



Good old grandpa soothed him by his voice, 

 and took him kindly by the hand down stairs. 



gave him a good big drink of milk, and all 

 was well. Now, little friends, Avhen any of you 

 get the •• tummy ache'' from eating tiio miich 

 honey, just remember grandpa's remedy, and 

 let me know if it cures you as it did little 

 — — ; and, by the way, that reminds me that 

 grandpa has never yet told us the name of 

 his little bed -fellow. We want to know 

 more about those grandchildren. Will not 

 good friend Cowan tell us something about 

 them':' May be one of them will write for 

 the Ji'VENiLK, and tell us about grandpa 

 while he is too sick to write himself.' 



THE DISCOVERY OF SILK. 



CONrPlI.EI) AND WKITTEN BY MISS NEI-LIE T.lX<'OI,X 



lUtSSITEK, PKACTIIAL SILK Cl'I.TVHIST, 



n(l.'>4 VINE ST.. PHILADEI.PHIA, PA. 



Contimied. 

 "FT was reserved to the great Henry IV. to intro- 

 :^- duce the culture of silk into France, at the l.e- 

 I ginning of the seventeenth century, and it con- 

 ■^ stituted one of the splendid epochs in the history 

 of that kingdom. Olivier de Serres was the 

 most instrumental in this new acquisition, and the 

 French call him to this day the patriarch of agri- 

 culture. In the year 1600 he published a book en- 

 titled " Theatre d' Agriculture et Mesnage des 

 Champs, " by which light, as it were, succeeded 

 darkness in rural economy; and it was read with so 

 much eagerness that thirteen editions were printed 

 within a short space of time. This success, how- 

 ever, he chie'Hy ascribed to the excellent king and 

 to his wise minister. Sully, who were the first to 

 view agriculture in all its imjiortant relations, and 

 gave to France the blessings of a "golden age.*" 



"In presenting to .vour Majesty the Tlieatre of .\g- 

 riculture and Management of fields, I do but call 

 .\our attention to .\'oui- own affairs." I)elighte<l 

 with the hook, the king honored the author with a 

 most obliging letter, written with his own hand, and 

 desiring him to come to Paris. Olivier left, with 

 great regret, his tine estate, in IHOl; though he 

 could not disregard a call wiiicli tended to make 

 hinj more active for the good of his eounti-y. 

 Scarcely arrived at I'uiis, he leceivccl tlii' greatest 

 distinctions; he soon became the confidant and ad- 

 viser ol the king, and of Sully; and wise laws and 

 regtilalions (•< neerning agriculture wei'c enacted, 

 ■rhe kingofl.'red Oliviei' t he highest honors; but he 

 asked one favor onl.\-: Tliat all useless frees might 

 be banished li-om the royal gardens. When this 

 was granted, Olivier went to work wifli such dili- 

 gejiee that throughout the kingdom Ihe nieasuic 

 was executed within a short time. But this was 

 not enough lor his iiatriotic zeal. I'pon his recom- 

 mendation, lt,0(K) nuilberry-trees, anda great (juanti- 

 t.\- of seed of the same tree, were ordered from 

 Ital.^•, fo sujiply the vacancies intentionally made in 

 the royal gardens. In later times, he i)rocui-ed, al- 

 so, from Italy, silkworms' eggs, and ac(iuainted 

 l)eoi>le with their rearing. The trees, the eggs, and 

 a print<'d instiiiction, respecting their use, were 



* from such imn'ilscs the good king used fo sav.thnt " each 

 peasant outrht to have daily a chicken in his pot," and hence 

 the eager search altei-.talented men, and the favor shown fo 

 thfni; the facility with which Sully extin^nli^hed, in the tpace 

 of ten years, the public debt of two hundied millions that had 

 bopu accumulated during the war; the surplus of thirty mil- 

 lions, which the tieasury possessed, ten years later; the 

 general welfare throughout France: and, finally, the enco- 

 miums bestowed to this day upon the great monarrh and his 

 truly great minister. 



